Available online at www.CivileJournal.org Civil Engineering Journal (E-ISSN: 2476-3055; ISSN: 2676-6957) Vol. 7, No. 11, November, 2021 1898 Evaluation of Parking Demand and Future Requirement in the Urban Area Abdulkareem N. Abbood 1* , Abdul R. I. Ahmed 1 , Harith K. K. Ajam 1 1 Collage of Engineering, Civil Engineering Department, University of Babylon, Babylon, Iraq. Received 16 July 2021; Revised 17 September 2021; Accepted 03 October 2021; Published 01 November 2021 Abstract Whatever vehicle is traveling, it needs to stop in order to arrive road users their different goals. In most universities, parking becomes an important campus resource, for being as a place to come frequently and to spend long period. Now days parking problems increase with repaid growth of car ownership. So traffic and parking impact can be consider as a major source of contention within any community and can raise additional costs for universities, as well as urban areas facilities. The study aims to evaluate the current parking situation on the university campus in terms of the available supply and required demand of parking spaces in order to recommend future parking spaces need for the next five years. Data has had been collected according to field traffic and engineering survey, Videography method was used for this purpose. Inventories, Interviews and questionnaires included. Data analysis conducted with the aided of AASHTO and equation methods. The study concluded future parking required is 140 vehicle- spaces for the year 2026, according to population rate of growth also illegal parking leads to interference with the movements of pedestrians and their crossing, as well as reducing the capacity of the roads in the study area. Keywords: Parking; Parking Accumulations; Parking Demand; Urban Area. 1. Introduction Most of the large and medium cities, as well as large educational areas such as universities and research centers suffer from the problem of parking availability. Due to the lack of planning and not given enough importance in master plan this problem appears clearly according to the mounting growth with rapid increase of Car Ownership matched by the growth in demand for stopped in suitable parking vehicles. When determining the width of a parking lane, keep in mind that it will likely be used as a traffic lane in the future, either constantly or throughout peak times [1]. In the city of Zurich, a study was conducted to find the best way to operate the mobility and parking systems on demand. The study found that the system can function successfully even when there are a limited number of parking spaces available, and that expanding capacity of parking by one parking place per automobile cannot provide any advantages. Furthermore, it ensures optimum parking spaces' distribution for a certain on-demands and city transportations system [2]. The major objective of the University Tanage National case research depending project had been on the demand and supply car-parking facilities for students in college of engineering. Depending on the results of the parking interview, 88 percent of students reported to have parking problems. Nevertheless, in the assessment of current * Corresponding author: eng.a.naji@uobabylon.edu.iq http://dx.doi.org/10.28991/cej-2021-03091767 © 2021 by the authors. Licensee C.E.J, Tehran, Iran. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).